Denzil Forrester: Duppy Conqueror / We Culture
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Author: Forrester, Denzil
This volume presents 45 years of expressive paintings and drawings by UK–based artist Denzil Forrester. Taking inspiration from London’s dub reggae culture & clubs of the 1980s, Forrester’s working process is analogous to creating versions or reconfigurations of the same music track. Accompanying two American exhibitions, this catalogue includes over 200 colour plates, new scholarship, archival images & an annotated interview. It is the artist’s most comprehensive publication to date.Duppy, an African word that evokes spirits and ancestors, is related semantically to dub, or the altered recordings of familiar songs made anew. References to the diaspora, dub reggae and the policing of Black cultural expression in Britain reverberate like a refrain throughout Forrester's practice. These figures and expressions read like a visual dub mix, echoing one another and reconstituting themselves while projecting the transformative energy of the music. Forrester’s numerous sketches from this period, made in the semi-darkness of urban dance halls, continue to inform his paintings today.
ISBN 9798985840612. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. hb. 408 pages. 225 colour, 50 b/w ills. 30.5 x 22.9 cm.
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This volume presents 45 years of expressive paintings and drawings by UK–based artist Denzil Forrester. Taking inspiration from London’s dub reggae culture & clubs of the 1980s, Forrester’s working process is analogous to creating versions or reconfigurations of the same music track. Accompanying two American exhibitions, this catalogue includes over 200 colour plates, new scholarship, archival images & an annotated interview. It is the artist’s most comprehensive publication to date.Duppy, an African word that evokes spirits and ancestors, is related semantically to dub, or the altered recordings of familiar songs made anew. References to the diaspora, dub reggae and the policing of Black cultural expression in Britain reverberate like a refrain throughout Forrester's practice. These figures and expressions read like a visual dub mix, echoing one another and reconstituting themselves while projecting the transformative energy of the music. Forrester’s numerous sketches from this period, made in the semi-darkness of urban dance halls, continue to inform his paintings today.
ISBN 9798985840612. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. hb. 408 pages. 225 colour, 50 b/w ills. 30.5 x 22.9 cm.
available